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Dr Barbara Anne York Main OAM, who died last week, was one of Australia's leading spider researchers and conservationists. She studied the world's oldest spider and championed their home at a time when both the environment and women were given no fighting chance.

The Western Australia State Government will now supply water to affected farms where, in some cases, record-low rainfall has persisted, and damaging floods in early 2017 were the last significant rainfall event.

Fortunes have been looking up for West Australian farmers with historically high wool prices and a near seven-billion-dollar grain harvest. But uncertainty about the future of live exports is clouding that bright outlook.